- Jul 12, 2009
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Wow! If I get ANYTHING to live out of these two batches, it's going to be miraculous. 
I set a dozen (Batch #1) LS eggs in my RollX on May 20. Knowing that the Light Sussex often start pipping for me on or about the 19th day of incubation, I moved them into my hatcher on Day 16, just to be on the safe side, and I upped the humidity to 68% (from a dry incubation that hovers back and forth at around 30%).
Nothing is moving or cheeping out of Batch #1 at all. They've all been sitting there quiet in the hatcher, and I don't have a good feeling.
Got up early this morning, puttered around, had a coffee, and was a bit bummed out over the silent eggs. So, suitably bleary-eyed, I decided to check my incubator to have a look at Batch #2, set on May 23. (I've been having those 'hinky' feelings all night which wrecked my sleep.)
What's that on one of the shells, I wonder. It looks like ... IT LOOKS LIKE A PIP! TWO OF THEM ARE PIPPED & PEEPING and the turner was still merrily doing its job ...rolling them over and over like jellybeans on a conveyor belt.
WTH! Suddenly I'm wide-awake as I frantically transferred Batch #2 to the hatcher with silent Batch #1. My morning is now jump-started. I didn't need the coffee afterall.
I know I didn't screw up my dates; The temperature in my RollX has been bang-on at 99.5 with a calibrated thermometer, and the eggs were stored as usual, on my kitchen table before setting.
I'm baffled, still faintly hopeful, but I have no clue what happened this time. Things have been going like clockwork up until now. Did we have some strange moon event or something? (Sometimes, I get so caught up that I miss major things that might potentially subtract my attention from the incubator and hatcher windows, ya know?)
I set a dozen (Batch #1) LS eggs in my RollX on May 20. Knowing that the Light Sussex often start pipping for me on or about the 19th day of incubation, I moved them into my hatcher on Day 16, just to be on the safe side, and I upped the humidity to 68% (from a dry incubation that hovers back and forth at around 30%).
Nothing is moving or cheeping out of Batch #1 at all. They've all been sitting there quiet in the hatcher, and I don't have a good feeling.
Got up early this morning, puttered around, had a coffee, and was a bit bummed out over the silent eggs. So, suitably bleary-eyed, I decided to check my incubator to have a look at Batch #2, set on May 23. (I've been having those 'hinky' feelings all night which wrecked my sleep.)
What's that on one of the shells, I wonder. It looks like ... IT LOOKS LIKE A PIP! TWO OF THEM ARE PIPPED & PEEPING and the turner was still merrily doing its job ...rolling them over and over like jellybeans on a conveyor belt.
I know I didn't screw up my dates; The temperature in my RollX has been bang-on at 99.5 with a calibrated thermometer, and the eggs were stored as usual, on my kitchen table before setting.
I'm baffled, still faintly hopeful, but I have no clue what happened this time. Things have been going like clockwork up until now. Did we have some strange moon event or something? (Sometimes, I get so caught up that I miss major things that might potentially subtract my attention from the incubator and hatcher windows, ya know?)
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